Abstract

Psychological Inquiry, 23: 150–154, 2012 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2012.668002 Kyle D. Dillon and Fiery Cushman Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Beef stock contains the essential reduction of a bull. gal terms, of three primary parts: mens rea, actus reus, Picasso captures something much more extraordinary: and causation (Bonnie et al., 2010). In common terms, the essence of our visual representation of a bull—the these are a guilty mind, a guilty act, and causal re- spare curve of a nostril that our mind supplies with sponsibility for a harmful outcome. In Picasso’s terms: steaming breath. Evoking this analogy, Gray, Young, John intentionally harmed Mary. To our eyes this a and Waytz (this issue) propose that the essence of our truer reduction of morality. We examine each element mental capacity to identify moral violations is dyadic in turn. mind perception. Do they succeed? Mens Rea According to the dyadic model, the essential form of morality is a perceived set comprising two minds: To convict someone of a crime, the prosecution an agent and a patient. The agent is capable of form- must provide evidence